Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees